Senior Technical Engineer Database at Emirates Airlines in Garhoud Area opposite to Airport Terminal 3, Dubai, UAE will design, develop, support and deliver robust and cost-effective solutions for the business and IT-led initiatives including solution development and cost estimations, configurations and deployment, business case development and approval. Additionally, candidate will support, contribute and ensure solution compliance to the enterprise architecture, production processes, QMS and other EGIT standard as well as to support, contribute and ensure the development of the roadmap of the concentrated technology roadmap aligning with the IT Strategy. This is a Senior level full time job. And salary can range between 15000-25000 AED/month.

Responsibilities of Senior Technical Engineer

• Provide expert technical consultancy and guidance to EGIT dealing within the technology area and act as lead technical member in the project team delivering the work packages assigned.
• Develop IT Solutions that meet customer requirements. Ensure that the design is robust, appropriate and of high quality and conforming to corporate standards and in line with the technical strategy.
• Ensure that the developed architecture/solution meets the service level requirements in terms of expected availability. Capacity, continuity, security, performance and reliability.
• Foster the development of high-performing technical teams to meet strategic architectural objectives.
• Develop solution architectures for assigned projects with the established EA standards and also support the development of technology advancements and adaptation of new technologies.
• Collaborate with other IT Technology teams to implement ongoing monitoring of the relevant technology to ensure level 1 & 2 incidents are configured within EMS.
• Guide Project Manager/Technology team managers for solution definition, technical design and development of in-house developed solutions. These are to delivered as per agreed costs and timescales to meet signed-off functional, technical and process requirements.
• Ensure that assigned incidents are resolved within the agreed service levels and problems are defined and analyzed in line with the Problem Management Process.

What you will do more

• Ensure that solutions to problems meet the architectural and security standards within the technology area and that impact on the business is minimized.
• Own and manage changes within the technology area.
• Publish and maintain high-quality documentation for the technology area. Working within the standard templates and documentation guidelines. Which includes detailed design, configuration details, support procedures, operations manuals and deployments architecture.
• Manage ?End-of-life? replacement of equipment and/or software within the technology area to ensure conformance to technical standards and support the technology initiatives and directions.
•  Ensure the process and enhancement specifications are translated into effective programs with error-free code using the enterprise development tools, methods and languages.

Requirements for Role of Senior Technical Engineer

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in Information Technology.
• 5+ Years of experience.
• Experience in databases, Rational, NoSQL and Distributed SQL databases and cloud DBaaS and with leading public clouds, VMware-based private cloud.
• Experience with continuous availability deployments – RAC, Oracle ADG, Enterprise Manager, Oracle Golden Gate.
• Experience in environments requiring low latency, high throughput, availability and scalability.
• Experience in the usage of Oracle DBs in public clouds – Amazon AWS, MS Azure. Cloud-aware architectures deployment and support background, both for IaaS DBaaS (AWS Aurora etc).
• Experience in automation in large-scale database environments, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraforms, and shell scripting in CI/CD environments. Everything is a code approach. Git and code maintenance experience.
• Experience with other RDBMS – MS SQL, PostgreSQL – both IaaS and DBaaS.
• Experience with distributed SQL databases – Yugabyte, MariaDB, CockroachDB.
• Experience with developing and maintaining backend Java, NodeJS and .Net applications using relational and NoSQL database.
• Experience with frameworks like Spring, Spring Data.
• Experience with database migrations, source code management, code refactoring, SQL writing and optimization for various relational databases, high availability and performance tuning.

Skills And Knowledge Desired

• Agile and DevOps practice, Servant leadership principles.
• Knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins and shell scripting.
• Skilled in performance tuning, capacity management and troubleshooting large Oracle DB deployments with continuous availability requirements.
• Knowledge in cloning, refreshing production applications and databases to non-production instances, automated cloning, and automated DB patching.
• Knowledge in software engineering for database intensive applications and general database administration in enterprise critical environments.

Solutions Architect Emirates Airlines Dubai